John 3:27
John answered and said, A man can receive nothing unless it is given him from heaven.
1 Corinthians 4:7
For who made you to differ? And what have you that you did not receive? And if you received, why do you boast as one that receives not?
James 1:17
All good giving, and every perfect gift, comes down from above, from the Father of lights, with whom there is no change or shadow of turning.
Matthew 21:25
Whence was the baptism of John? from heaven or from men? And they reasoned within themselves, saying, If we say from heaven, he will say to us, Why did you not believe him?
Matthew 25:15
to one he gave five talents [$5,000], to another two [$2,000], and to another one [$1,000]; to each according to his ability, and immediately went abroad.
Mark 11:30-31
The baptism of John; was it from heaven, or of men? answer me.
Mark 13:34
As a man leaving his house to go abroad, and giving authority to his servants, and to each one his work, commanded the porter to watch,
Romans 12:6
but having different gifts according to the grace given us, if prophecy [let us prophesy] according to the analogy of the faith,
1 Corinthians 1:1
PAUL, called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Sosthenes the brother,
1 Corinthians 2:12-14
And we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is of God, that we may know the things given us by God,
1 Corinthians 3:5
Who then is Apollos? and who is Paul? but ministers by whom you believed, and to each as the Lord gave.
1 Corinthians 12:11
but all these [works] performs one and the same Spirit, distributing to each in particular as it wills.
1 Corinthians 15:10
but by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace to me was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, but not I but the grace of God with me.
Galatians 1:1
PAUL an apostle, not from men nor by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead,
Ephesians 1:1
PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints in [Ephesus] and the faithful in Christ Jesus.
Ephesians 3:7-8
of which I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by the operation of his power.
1 Timothy 2:7
of which I was made a herald and an apostle,?? speak the truth, I lie not,?? teacher of nations in faith and truth.
Hebrews 5:4-5
And no one takes the honor on himself but he that is called by God, even as Aaron also was.
1 Peter 4:10-11
as each has received a gift, minister the same among yourselves as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.